Replicas and censorship

[Motorrad]

No need to discuss counterfeit merchandise on forum which is an offshoot of a primarily car based website IMO.

Not only does it legitimise it to some extent (despite most opinion being against it) it means that the moderation team has to pay extra attention to a subject which should be self moderating and non contentious.

There are plenty of fake watch websites for fake people.

[plasticpig]

whoami said:

plasticpig said:

Stuart said:

plasticpig said:

Stuart said:

Hmm. Hopefully I can't often be accused of overt censorship. I guess that my line of thinking was vaguely along these lines:

- We don't permit links to fake software threads elsewhere on PH, so why is this different?
- Every time we have a "should I buy a fake" thread everyone rows in to tell them how wrong they are. How many times do we need to see this?
But, it is tempered by the fact that the watch forum is largely self censoring (I'm here because I'm obsessed interested by watches rather than because I'm a mod). We're also still underground so don't tend to get legal action in the way that WUS and the others do.

So why do PH allow replica cars to be advertised? Whats the diffrence between a Cobra replica being sold with all the correct badging but a Rover V8 engine? Surely this is exactly the same as a vintage Rolex replica? Looks the same on the outside but the innards are inferior/different.

Quite a lot - they don't generally try to pretend that they're anything other than a Cobra rep with a Rover V8 engine, and they don't tend to be used to try and defraud buyers out of the sums involved in buying a real one on the used market.

Thera are plenty of sites out there though that sell replicas as replicas. People buy a replica Rolex for the same reason the buy a replica Cobra. They would really like the real thing but can't afford it.

Then there are the very few who have the real thing but dont want to damage it so also have a replica. Not Cobra's prehaps but there is at least one Buggatti Type 35 owner who has an Argentinian knock off as well.

Complete and utter rubbish

Which bit? Google will show you plenty of sites selling replica watches as replicas. I have met the chap with the two type 35's. His replica was purchased from Pur Sang http://www.pursangweb.com/ They are very near to the original and potentialy qualify for FIA papers.